Jury Disagrees in Kirby Trial in Delaware Court
Delaware County jury deadlocked nine to three after 24 hours of deliberation on charges involving the Cleveland Discount Company. The case focused on the alleged theft of 3000 worth of stock from Grace Cooper, with Kirby awaiting possible federal indictment for using the mails to defraud.
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Josiah Kirby
Cleveland Discount Company
Delaware County
Kirby
Grace Cooper
Delaware
Bonita Grimes
Charles Jackman
J. H. Rae
Grimes
Harry Jewell
Cleveland
California
L. A. Morrison
Harter
Jewell
Morrison
Oon
Berkeley
Cal
Deer Eludes Police After Garden Visits in Hackensack
In Hackensack New Jersey a large buck deer has been raiding gardens for two days. Patrolman Vreeland spotted the animal in a flivver but it jumped a fence and escaped. Detectives have not determined the deer's origin.
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Hackensack, N. J
New York World News Service
Hackensack
N. J
Vreeland
Secret Names Spark Camera Hearing In Baldwin Raper Divorce
London July 23 cross petitions for divorce between Alfred Baldwin Raper and his wife dominated by claims of misconduct and a mysterious disclosure of two men. Mrs Raper formerly the Marchioness Conyngham identified two names she said she revealed before marriage, but the defense questioned their accuracy. Judge Hill refused in camera proceedings while noting public curiosity and a crowd that included many leaving during the session.
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New York World News Service
London
Cross
Alfred Baldwin Raper
Edward Marshall Hall
Raper
Justice Hill
Sir Edward
Mrs. Raper
Hold-Up Men Steal 20000 in Gems at Subway
Two robbers bound and gagged jewelry salesman Philip Wohl in a wash room at the Forty ninth Street and Seventh Avenue BMT station in New York. They escaped with un设 diamonds and other jewelry valued at 20000, leaving the salesman chained until a porter found him about half an hour later.
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Associated Press
New York
Fortyninth Street
Seventh Avenue
Philip Wohl
Peonage to be acted on by League of Nations
Geneva report indicates the League of Nations Slavery Commission will forward a study on forced labor in Portuguese colonies to Portugal after resisting American underwriter critiques. A British refuter claims to disprove the charges, with recommendations for firm council action and notes on peonage concerns in Peru and other South American nations.
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League OF Nations
Albin E. Johnson
New York World News Service
Geneva
Washington
Ross
Commission
Council of the
Peru
Association Pour Protection Des Ingines
Ind
World News Service
Y. World Press Pub. Co
Oklahoma Indian affairs inquiry ordered by secretary
Secretary Work asked the Board of Indian Commissioners to investigate the Indian situation in Oklahoma following attacks on the administration of affairs for the tribes. The board is not part of the Interior Department or Oklahoma state government.
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Washington
Board of Indian Commissioners
Interior Department
State of
Oklahoma
Ten Men Trapped in Tennessee Mine Found Dead
Bodies of Claude Tindell and Raymond Watkins recovered from Bryson's Dip mine in Rockwood. Rescue teams entered the shaft over a mile back but reported gas and afterdamp hindering further search. Officials said little hope remained for the remaining entombed miners.
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Tennessee
Associated Press
Rockwood
Tenn
Claude Tindell
Raymond Watkins
Chattanooga
Roane Tron Company
Bryson
William Snow
Sam Givins
Roy Limburg
Sam Doughty
Jim Wilson
John Green
Tom Green
Tom Sullivan
Snow
King
Knoxville
American Legion
Robert Thompson
Four Kittens Born Siamese Style In Lynn Home
Tunata a Maltese cat owned by Joseph Sugerman gave birth to four unusually large kittens born in pairs two joined by the forelegs and two joined at the backs. All died within hours in Lynn Mass. on July 23.
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New York World News Service
Lynn
Mass
Tunata
Joseph Sugerman
Society Woman Leaps To Death In New York
Mrs. Peyton Van Rensselaer of Newport RI, 56, jumped from a sixth floor window on East Fortieth Street after visiting Dr R K Johnson for an X ray. Dr Johnson said she had been in a private sanitarium since Monday due to mental low mood.
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New York
Peyton van Rensselaer
Newport R. I
East Fortieth Street
R. K. Johnson
Melbourne Theater Veranda Collapse Kills Fifteen
Fifteen people died and hundreds were injured when packed verandas at a Melbourne moving picture theater collapsed during a parade of visiting American sailors on Burke Street. The disaster struck the crowded venue as spectators watched the parade, with victims believed to be among bystanders and parade onlookers.
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Melbourne
Burke Street
Indictments for Wine Graft Hit Illinois Prohibition Forces
Federal grand jury indicts Major Percy B. Owen and Ralph W. Stone for a $500,000 sacramental wine graft tied to permit sales. Other named officials include George R. Bruce Bernard Rumps Albert Bennett Louise Abelson and Harry Schlau. Conspiracy alleged with servicemen. Owen’s share about $200,000.
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New York World News Service
Chicago
Percy B. Owen
Prohibition
Illinois
Ralph W. Stone
Stone
Owen
George R. Bruce
Bernard Rumps
Albert Bennett
Louise Abelson
Harry Schlau
Major Owen
The
American Legion
Postal Clerk Is Made Third Federal Chief
Swampscott Mass July 23 W Irving Glover was appointed Second Assistant Postmaster General succeeding Paul Henderson who resigned Robert S Regar was named as Mr Glover s successor as Third Assistant Postmaster General Glover moves from Third to Second on August 1 when Colonel Henderson leaves to re enter business Regar is chief clerk in the Postoffice Department
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Associated Press
Swampscott
Mass
W. Irving Glover
Paul Henderson
Robert S. Regar
Glover
Colonel Henderson
Mr. Regar
Postoffice
Mine rescue gear sent to Rockwood after explosion
United States Mine Bureau dispatches rescue equipment from Knoxville district headquarters to Rockwood where ten miners are trapped after an explosion. J. M. Webb, in charge, has left for Rockwood to oversee the response.
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Associated Press
Knoxville, Tenn
United States Mine Bureau District
Knoxville
Rockwood
J. M. Webb
Two Aged Sisters Beaten to Death in New Hampshire Home
Hudson New Hampshire July 23 two elderly sisters Miss H Georgianna Gillis 77 and Miss Helen Gillis 80 were found beaten to death in their home. Neighbors found the bodies late today though the crime apparently occurred yesterday. Georgianna lay in the pantry with a crushed skull and Helen on a living room couch torn cape near the sink. No weapon or stranger was seen and the house showed no sign of robbery.
Scott Scott to Die as Governor Denies Stay
Russell Scott is to be hanged in Chicago tomorrow morning after Governor Small and the State Board of Pardons and Paroles denied a further reprieve. The decision, made after a five hour hearing, leaves mayors and supporters in Springfield, Chicago, Detroit and Windsor in tense suspense.
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Springfield
Russell Scott
Chicago
Small
State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Pardon Board
Detroit
Windsor
State House
Supreme Court of
George Sutton
Board of Pardons and Paroles
A. W. Kettels
Ques
Van Sweringen Testimony Ends After Seven Days of Cross
Van Sweringen departed the Interstate Commerce Commission stand after nearly seven days of cross examination regarding the Nickel Plate merger with Erie Chesapeake & Ohio Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley. He disclosed a 45000 annual salary as Nickel Plate chairman and said he receives no personal fees from other participating railroads. Counsel indicated the records of the Van Sweringen interests and the five railroads will be searched for data bearing on the plan and the commission could alter the merger terms. J J Bennet will be recalled tomorrow to continue the case with more witnesses.
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Washington
E. C. Bailey
Hocking Valley Railroad
van Sweringen
Nickel Plate
Chesapeake & Ohio
Hocking Valley
Erie
Pere Marquette
J. J. Bennet
Communists plan fall putsch in Paris
Paris dispatch reports rumors of a planned Communist putsch in Paris this fall. The aim is to terrify civilians with motor trucks and mounted machine guns to provoke anti liberal reaction and widen pressure against Western Europe amid tensions with Moscow.
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New York World News Service
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Poumee Concern
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Rodes Taking Kin on Long Train Jaunt Across America
Charles Green Rodes of Ft. Lauderdale Florida leads a 54 member kinfolk caravan on a three month rail journey from Kansas City to California and the West. The trip began July 20 and will end about August 20, costing about 40000 dollars. The group includes preachers legislators railway men policemen and farmers with stops in Emporia and Clovis New Mexico en route to the Grand Canyon Old Mexico and Yellowstone Park.
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Charles Green Rodes
Ft. Lauderdale
Fla
Union Station
California
Rodes
Emporia
Kan
Clovis
N. M
Grand Canyon
Old Mexico
Oregon
Yellowstone Park
Colorado Springs
Southland
Fez, Hip Boots for U S Flyers
Paris dispatch says American volunteers for France will leave Le Bourget Tuesday to pilot their own planes to Morocco. Colonel Charles Sweeney commands seven to eight aviators and reporters in a unit preparing for action against Abd el Krim. They seek adequate protection and note German training flights to Morocco.
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France
Abd-el- Krim
Morocco
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Rabat
Charles Sweeney
Seattle
Abd-el-Krim
Africa
Germany
Army planes crash on Oahu kill two aviators injure three
Three U S Army De Haviland crashes on Oahu within hours kill First Lieutenant Charles Morse and Second Lieutenant John Wyatt, injure Sergeant Prosper Ter Moullen, Lieutenant McBlain, and Private Hanks. Morse died during takeoff from Luke Field. Wyatt crashed at Waipahu. McBlain injured. Wyatt's family in Hawaii includes wife and daughter.
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CHARLES L. _ MORSE
Lancaster
N. H
John A. Wyatt
Hampton
Prosper Ter Moullen
John F. McBlain
District of Columbia
Hanks
Ter Moullen
Morse
Luke Field
New Hampshire
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ford Island
Frosio
Navy
Army
Wyatt
de Haviland
Waipahu
Sergeant Ter Moullen
Tripler General Hospital
McBlain
Hawaii
Condemned Canadian Financier Faces Execution in Chicago
Russell Scott, once linked to a $30,000,000 Detroit Windsor bridge project and a former Canadian financier, awaits sunrise and death in Cook County Jail after Governor Small and the State Board of Pardons denied clemency. His wife and father raced to Chicago while appeals to Coolidge and others failed.
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Russell Scott
Cook County
Small
State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Scott
Detroit
Windsor
Ont
Catherine Scott
Springfield
Joseph Maurer
Robert
Ontario
Thre
Rochester
N. Y
Governor Small
Robert Scott
Russell
James Ball
Maurer
Ball
Grace Given Scott
Isobel Hurst
William A. McGraw
Coolidgeas
Groesbeck
Michigan
Crowe
Robert E. Crowe
Harvey Church
Coolidge declines to halt execution in Illinois case
In Swampscott Massachusetts on July 23 President Coolidge refused to intervene in the case of Russell Scott. Petitions from Scott’s wife and Windsor Ontario residents plus women’s groups reached Mrs Coolidge, but all messages were sent to the Department of Justice. Officials say Illinois is enforcing its own law and the President lacks authority to stop the sentence.
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